<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">At least 13 security personnel were killed in Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni province in a Taliban attack on Monday.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Arif Noori, spokesman for the provincial governor in Ghazni said, the target was a newly established joint Afghan army and police checkpoint in eastern Ghazni province. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">He said, seven soldiers and six policemen were killed in the attack. He said, six insurgents were killed and more than 10 others were injured in the three-hour battle. Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack.    </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Ghazni is the only one out of 34 Afghan provinces where the country's October parliamentary elections could not take place for security reasons. Voting there has been postponed for a year.</div>